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    York City and one for London. Three aircraft were forced to land at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip near Zarqa, Jordan, formerly Royal Air Force...
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  • Marcel André Boisard (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    in September 1970, the liberation of Western hostages hijacked to Dawson’s Field airport in Jordan. In 1975, he was appointed Research Fellow of the...
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  • Fielding Dawson (August 2, 1930 – January 5, 2002, aged 71) was a Beat-era author of short stories and novels, and a student at Black Mountain College...
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    Leila Khaled (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September...
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    the Western newspapers after the hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the Dawson's Field hijackings. These photos often included Khaled wearing a keffiyeh in...
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  • Zürich (a Douglas DC-8) were forced to land at Dawson's Field. September 6, 1970: As part of the Dawson's Field hijackings by PFLP members, the hijacking of...
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    Black September (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings of 6 September 1970. This involved the Popular Front for...
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    George Habash (category Dawson's Field hijackings)
    single democratic and secular state in the entire region. In the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings, Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners...
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    Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts...
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    World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations...
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